The assassination was obsessed with Jodie Foster. Wanted to kill Raegan to impress her

Sunny Day March 30, 1981. Ronald Reagan comes out to Hilton in Washington. He goes toward the limo. Shots are heard. People scream. Bodyguards jump on the president. He was wounded. The bullet bounced off the limo. He hit him under his left hand. He had internal bleeding. Even a month later he had already left the hospital. The attacker was John Hicncley, who wanted to kill the president to amaze the Hollywood megas -law Jodie Foster, which he was erotic obsessed with. This is not the only assassination that shocked the public.

Recently, during the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, an incident was recorded that could be considered an attempt to assassination. On June 18, 2016, during Trump’s gathering in Las Vegas, Michael Steven Sandford, a British citizen, tried to take a gun to a police officer with the intention of shooting Trump.

Sandford approached the cop on the pretext that he wanted an autograph and then tried to grab his weapon. He was quickly mastered and arrested before he was able to accomplish his plan.

The investigation found that Sandford had planned an attack a few days in advance and even visited shooting to rehearse cracking. In court, he acknowledged the guilt of interfering with the official proceedings and the illegal possession of weapons. He was sentenced to a year and one day in prison, after which he was deported to the United Kingdom. This incident emphasized the importance of security measures at political conferences and caused concern about the possible threats of candidates during the campaign.

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The assassination attempts did not avoid European politicians either. On May 15, 2024, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was severely wounded in an attempt to assassination as he welcomed the gathered in front of the Handlov Cultural Center. The striker, Juraj C. (71), approached the premiere and fired four shots from close range, hitting Fica in the abdomen. The prime minister was immediately transported to a hospital in Banska Bystrica, where he underwent a multi -hour surgery and recovered a few months later to get back to duty. This was not the first attempt at the Fica assassination – as early as 2018, he was threatened with a similar danger, but then the attack was prevented on time.

The investigation showed that Juraj C. acted independently, and cited disagreement with Prime Minister Fica policies as a motive. Initially charged with attempted murder, the prosecutors later filed an indictment of a terrorist attack, threatening him with a lifelong imprisonment. This event further deepened political divisions in Slovakia, given that Fico is known for his pro-Russian views and controversial decisions, such as suspension of military assistance to Ukraine.

The attack on Reagan was not politically led. John Hincley was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster, a Taxi driver’s star (1976).

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Hincley developed a deep, pathological fascination with Foster, followed her, sent her letters and even enrolled in Yale University just to be closer to her. In his disturbed logic, he believed that he would impress her if he had a assassination of the US president. That day in Washington, in front of the Hilton Hotel, he pulled out a gun and fired six bullets toward Reagan. The president survived, but his spokesman James Brady was seriously wounded and remained permanently paralyzed.

At the trial, Hincley was declared unaccountable and placed in a psychiatric institution. His act remained one of the most bizarre assassinations in modern history, because it was the result of fanatical, distorted love, not political conflict.

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Although he was not a classic « fan », Richard Paul Pavlick, a former post worker, developed an almost obsessive fixation on the young and charismatic John F. Kennedy during his 1960 -year presidential campaign. Pavlick did not hate Kennedy in the traditional sense, but he perceived him as a symbol of a privileged rich establishment to which, in his head, he had to put an end to.

He planned to perform an assassination using a car full of explosives and would blow along with Kennedy. He was waiting for the opportunity in front of Kennedy’s family at Palm Beach, Florida, but gave up at the last moment because he saw Kennedy’s wife Jacqueline and the children with him.

He was arrested a few days later, and the authorities revealed that he had obsessively followed Kennedy for years and collected articles about him, elaborating his deadly plan. Although he failed in his intention, his assassination planning remained one of the first documented cases of fanatical obsession with the President.

Another bizarre attempt at the assassination occurred on September 5, 1975, when Lynette « Squeaky » Fromme, a cult member of Charles Manson, tried to kill US President Gerald Ford in Sacrament. Fromme was not a classic political assassin – he did not have a hatred of Ford as a person, but was obsessed with Manson’s ideology and believed that she had to do something to draw attention to his « mission ».

That day, she approached Ford at a public event, lifted the gun and pressed the trigger, but the bullet was not fired because she did not pull the shutter. Members of the secret service immediately defeated her and arrested her.

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Fromme has become a symbol of fanatical followers who are willing to sacrifice everything for their idols, even if that idol is a mass killer like Manson. Incredibly, but just 17 days after Froma’s assassination attempt, President Gerald Ford became the target of another attack. Sara Jane Moore, a woman who was obsessed with left -wing movements and the idea of ​​a revolutionary change, tried to kill Ford in San Francisco.

Unlike Fromma, Moore was not a member of the cult, but she had an almost pathological fascination with political radicalism and thought that the Ford assassination would do something significant for her vision of social change. When she fired a bullet, she missed because one passerby reflexively pushed her hand.